stories

Our final anthology of Jack’s best stories. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Sakaicho, Hona Asi and Hakadaki A young American sailor in Yokohama is invited by his rickshaw driver to visit the latter’s home in a poor quarter of the city, and samples the traditional hospitality of that intriguing and fast-rising nation. The proud parents present their ten-year-old son, whose education is the unique focus of the sacrifices and efforts of the household; but when the sailor comes back for another visit (…)

The best of Jack London’s writings were mostly produced during his inspired decade 1899-1908, after the year he had spent in the Klondike region of Canada’s Northwest Territories participating in the great gold rush there.
A majority (63) of the 107 short stories he wrote and published during that extraordinarily creative and prolific period were based on the harsh life and mostly-bitter experiences he had lived through and seen and heard about in that wild land.
With the Klondike (…)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. THE WIFE OF A KING (1899) A prospector has left his half-Indian wife to join the flood of gold-seekers in Dawson, and when he fails to return word comes back about his dallying with a casino dancer, the plucky wife sets off for Dawson in the thick of winter to see for herself what is going on. She is taken in hand by several old hands who prepare her for a surprise confrontation with the erring husband at the city’s annual masked ball. (5,700 words).
2. AT THE (…)

Jack London’s stories of life and adventure in the Far North, mostly set in the Klondike region of the Northwest Territories in Canada during the great gold rush of 1898 there, all feature striking descriptions of the extreme climatic conditions experienced by the participants in that greatest of gold rushes.
We have regrouped here the very best of all of his Klondike tales centred on the struggle for survival in that extraordinarily severe and hostile – and dangerous – clime.
An e-book (…)

Twelve stories of adventure and drama in the harsh climate of the Far North, mostly in the Klondike region of northwestern Canada, where immense gold resources were discovered in 1897.
An e-book is available for downloading below. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA (1899) Two prospectors engage in an epic hundred-mile dog-sled race to file a claim on a gold-rich stake and, above all, to win the promised hand of a very vivacious young woman (3,300 words).
2. A NORTHLAND (…)

The rousing story of how Buck, a big dog living the good life on a large property in sunny southern California, is kidnapped to feed the enormous demand for sled dogs in the days of the gold rush in the Klondike region of northern Canada, where he learns how to survive and to thrive and where he finds his destiny in the wild way of life of the savage Northlands.
The greatest story [1] ever written written with an animal hero, in our humble opinion.
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Jack London wrote only four stories about boxing, but when he did they were winners!
Not only do these stories get you inside the minds and hearts of the fighters and of their entourages — managers, promoters, betters and (bloodthirsty) spectators — more intensely and grippingly and insightfully than, well, just about anyone else has ever done, but they are all penetrated with a sense of something higher and of great significance, in particular the vital sociological significance of food (…)

Jack London is best known for his two adventurous Klondike tales, the novella The Call of the Wild and his novel White Fang, featuring exceptionally tough and survival-prone dogs not unlike their wild wolf forebears.
His great talent for getting into the heart and mind of mankind’s oldest conquest had already been evident in the many Klondike stories in which dogs and dog-teams are featured, but nowhere was his genius for capturing the individualities and personalities of the canine genre (…)

During the great depression year of 1893 (the worst in the history of the United States until then), when he was only seventeen, Jack London (1876-1916) joined the nation-wide protest movement known as Kelly’s Army to march from San Francisco to Washington with thousands of others.
He spent an entire year on the road, an experience which he summarized in his autobiographical memoir Jack London, by Himself as follows: “I tramped all through the United States, from California to Boston, and (…)

This exceptionally far-sighted vision of the “plague-fall” of civilization as we know it was a brilliant precursor of the end-of-the-world variant of the science-fiction genre that has attracted so much attention in recent years.
The Scarlet Plague was first published in the May-June 1912 issues of the U.K. monthly periodical London Magazine.
It was first published in book form in 1915 with a large number of illustrations by Gordon Grant that are all shown here.
(20,200 words)
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